China urged US not to overreact to PRC exercises in South China Sea

Beijing. May 24. Silkroadnews - Beijing disagrees with characterization of bombers on island as 'militarization', China Daily reports.
The recent landing of the bomber of the People’s Liberation Army Air Force on the island in the South China Sea is a part of military exercises not to be over-interpreted, Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said.
Lu made this statement, commenting on the reaction of the United States and the Philippines to these exercises.
Pentagon spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Christopher Logan said that the Chinese “militarization of disputed features in the South China Sea only serves to raise tensions and destabilize the region.”
Lu rebuked the Pentagon, saying the exercises and militarization are different things.
“The South China Sea islands are China’s territory. The training is a normal exercise conducted by the Chinese military. It's not necessary for other parties to make an over-interpretation. They are totally different in nature than the behavior of driving one country’s own military vessels and aircraft across a long, long distance to the South China Sea and posing a threat to regional countries,” the agency quoted Lu saying.
Bombers of different types, including an unspecified number of H-6Ks from the Air Force of the People’s Liberation Army of China, took off from the airport in southern China and made a simulated strike before landing on the island in the South China Sea.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Philippines said in its statement that it closely monitors the case in the South China Sea and takes the appropriate diplomatic measures, but did not name China.
The US has dispatched its military vessels and aircraft to the South China Sea for years. Its B-52 bombers carried out training exercises in the vicinity of the South China Sea in late April. The news came less than a month after the US sent the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt to the South China Sea, the publication reads.
According to Teng Jianqun, a researcher at the China Institute of International Studies, other countries should get used to the fact that China conducts military exercises on its own territory. The exercises are in line with the international law, do not threaten the security of other countries and is not a “militarization”.
He also said, the US should stop “pointing its fingers” at such exercises, this will not change China’s determination to defend its territory.